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Your Question: I dread doing performance appraisals, and it often seems that my employees don't much care for them either. But obviously they have to be done. Got any suggestions for how to make the process easier?
 StreetSavvy Answer:
Of the many frustrations leaders have on the people side of business, performance appraisal is always near the top of the list. Perhaps if more leaders saw performance appraisal as a means to a better end - to better bottom-line results - instead of just one more thing they have to do, it could shed its much maligned reputation and become the powerful tool it has the potential to be.
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Leadership Excellence Summit 2007: Ethics, Integrity & Character
Testing the Leader's Internal Compass
The success of an organization depends on having leaders who are smart, effective, and ethical: men and women who get things done, and done in the right way.
Academy Leadership and The United States Naval Academy are pleased to offer a unique forum for face-to-face networking and dialogue between industry leaders and key strategic partners at the 2007 Leadership Excellence Summit: Ethics, Integrity and Character. Summit attendees are experienced senior executives and policy makers from the public, private, military and non-profit sectors.
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Expert's Corner |
 Negotiating to Get What You Want
by Linda Swindling, J.D., CSP
Whether we realize it or not, we're constantly negotiating something...a better assignment, cooperation from another department, where to go on vacation, who will clean up after dinner. Keep in mind some basic pointers about influence and negotiating, and you'll greatly improve your odds of a successful outcome. Just don't let your boss or teenager read this article from a premier negotiation expert!
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